* Suzanne Vega's "Luka".* Jason Michael Carroll's "Alyssa Lies".* Music/MartinaMcBride's "Independence Day" and "Concrete Angel".* The main character in Music/CarrieUnderwood's "Blown Away" is heavily implied to have been abused by her alcoholic father. * Disturbed's "Down With The Sickness", particularly the infamous dog-biting-back bridge.* "Crawling" by Music/Linkin Park is about Mike Shinoda's experiences with abuse as a kid. * John Michael Montgomery's "The Little Girl," where the title character witnesses her father beating her mother ... and then one day witnessing his murdering her before turning the gun on himself.* "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" by The Offspring. The song is meant to be an apology to a girl that lead singer Dexter Holland, as well as his friends, knew was sexually abused during her youth by her father, yet no one ever brought it up.* "Amy in the White Coat" by Bright Eyes is about the life of a girl who is being sexually abused by her father. The song is told through the point-of-view of her father, and some of* her classmates.* "Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith is about a girl who murders her father because he sexually abused her.* Pearl Jam's "Alive" tells the story of a young man raped by his mother. Although the story is very much a grim one, it was seen as a survivor's anthem among victims of parental incest, as fans commonly interpreted the chorus "I'm still alive, hey, I'm still alive" as being a triumphant declaration of survival, rather than what Eddie Vedder called a curse. In 2006, though, [[WordOfGod stated that the fan response changed his view of the song, and that the "curse" had been lifted from it.]]* Take a song by Music/{{Korn}}. Any song. Usually it's more about neglect than direct abuse, but to the children in the songs, it feels just the same.* Music/RegalPinion has a song called "For the Best" is about a daughter at her abusive father's funeral. His actions range from locking her in her room for hours on end to telling teacher's she "bumped into the chair". Regal has stated that he wrote the song as a TakeThat to people who ignored the signs but did nothing of it.--> ''Teachers saw her as that god damn "one kid" / The one you fantasize in mind's eye you'd rid''--> ''"Oh if only I knew then I'd do something different." / Well you did nothing, so congratulations''* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s song "The Chosen". The protagonist says "First time I had sex I was three/ First time consenting was thirteen", and claims that his mother "once left me in a supermarket".* Music/{{Beartooth}}'s song "Beaten In Lips", which spares no expenses on abusive parents and straight-up tells the abused children to not get brought down by them.* Music/AlanisMorissette's "Perfect" is about parents who live vicariously through their kids and humiliate and berate them for not meeting expectations.--> We love you just the way you are / If you're perfect.* Referenced near the end of the Music/PinkFloyd song "Dogs"-->"Who was born in a house full of pain"* First Born by The Plot In You is a ConceptAlbum about this.* Pat Benatar's "Hell is for Children", about the utter hell that kids with abusive parents have to live through:-->"Be a good boy and you'll get a new toy/Tell Grandma you fell off the swing."* ''Invisible Circles'' by Music/AfterForever is a ConceptAlbum centered on this theme, inspired by some of the children guitarist/vocalist Sander Gommans encountered during his previous job as an art teacher. In this story, the workaholic father refuses to compromise his chances at his dream career to help raise his daughter, leaving the mother to give up her job completely to spend time with the girl. This progresses for several years with the father rarely around and the mother taking out her frustrations on the daughter, who retreats into an escapist fantasy online in search of positive attention she doesn't get at home. But things go FromBadToWorse when an argument ends with the father walking out on both of them...* "Prison Sex" by Tool* Quite a few songs by TheMountainGoats, due to John having been abused himself. The entire album "The Sunset Tree" was about his abusive stepfather, particularly "Dance Music" and "This Year". A special note also goes to the [[{{Tearjerker}} soul-shattering]] "Song for my Stepfather".* Not quite PlayedForDrama, but definitely present in "Amos Moses" by Jerry Reed. [[FreudianExcuse Amos' surly demeanor is explained]] by Amos's father using him to bait alligators while hunting when Amos was a child. This, err ''hands-on'' approach to gator hunting at one point cost Amos his entire left arm up to the elbow.* Although the parents in ''Music/{{Tommy}}'' appear to mean well, they take ParentalNeglect so far that it's a matter of opinion whether it amounts to this. Their attempts to cure their son include paying a gypsy to feed him acid. They are also known for leaving him alone with his abusive cousin and/or his drunk rapist uncle. According to WordOfGod re: an early interview with [[Music/TheWho Pete Townshend]], Tommy's dad hits him ''for being deaf, dumb and blind'' (never mind that ''his own'' actions--killing a man in front of Tommy and then forcing him to keep quiet--actually traumatized the poor kid enough to have caused these disabilities in the first place). While it's perhaps not intentional, the way both parents refer to him simply as "the boy" comes off as fairly sociopathic.* Music/{{Genesis}}, "No Son Of Mine".* In the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles, there's the song Blood-Stained Switch. In the PV, the diary of the featured girl shows up and describes her father beating her...[[ParentalIncest among other things]]...* Music/{{TenThousandManiacs}}"What's the Matter Here?" addresses the issue of neighbors abusing their child, and the protagonist wanting to act, but not daring to intervene:-->"If I'm the only witness to your madness offer me some words to balance out what I see and what I hear. All these cold and rude things that you do I suppose you do BECAUSE he belongs to you,and instead of love, and the feel of warmth you've given him these cuts and sores that don't heal with time or with age."* Music/{{Skillet}} has a few songs reflecting Cooper's relationship with his father. He says his father wasn't physically abusive like "Open Wounds" suggests, but he was emotionally abusive. All of the songs involving Cooper's relationship were written and performed by him.* "Oh Father" by Music/{{Madonna}}. The video for the song combines this trope with DomesticAbuse as the adult version of her character has a relationship with a male character that just slaps her for no reason, suggesting that children who grow up in abusive homes end up being in abusive relationships themselves.* "Little Bird" by Music/ImogenHeap seems to be about this trope, although it could also be spousal abuse. Either way, the narrator of the song gradually discovers the abuse and asks the little bird of the song's title to help rescue the victim, [[spoiler: only for the little bird to abandon them at the end of the song.]]